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New Superheroes Community Service Program Lets Dragon Con Fans Lend a Hand ATLANTA – March 3, 2014 – Dragon Con, Atlanta’s internationally known pop culture, fantasy and sci-fi convention, has selected the Atlanta Community Food Bank as its official charity for 2014. Dragon Con will match dollar for dollar, up to $50,000, any money raised…

We went to SCARAB over the Martin Luther King Jr weekend in Columbia, SC. It was our first time as vendors, and we had a great time! The staff was courteous and polite, super-helpful and always smiling. As vendors, we were placed in the boardgame room, and it was great fun to see all the…

At this time next week, we’ll be packing up and putting the final touches on our inventory as we get ready to go to SCARAB! This will be our first convention where we’re vendors, and we’re pretty pumped about it. We’ll be selling things from our Etsy store, plus a secret SCARAB exclusive! There’s a…

This past weekend, we were able to attend Geek Media Expo (GMX) in Franklin, TN. The event is marketed as an expo instead of a convention, and this was certainly not like any convention we had ever attended. The scheduling ranged from guest panel Q&As to swing dance lessons. There were rooms for playing games,…

We here at the Geek Forge love George Perez‘ artwork, and use his versions of characters whenever possible as the model for our costumes. So we were excited when we stumbled upon the JLA vs. Avengers photoshoot at Dragon Con on Friday morning. The talented folks over at Distractotron put together this great video, featuring…

“I came here to chew bubblegum and roll dice…and I’m all out of bubblegum.” This past weekend, we went to GenCon 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana. GenCon calls itself “the best four days in gaming”, and we couldn’t agree more! The convention ran from August 15th to August 18, and the final official count of…

We were able to drop by AndoCon for a few hours, and wished we could have stayed longer! This year was the first year AndoCon was open to the public, and it was a great time. AndoCon is an annual convention focused on gaming and the geeky life. This was another small convention, which was…